Scientism and Values

by Helmut Schoeck (Editor)

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

Genres: Philosophy

270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 4 out of 5]

one review i saw spoke about how there might be universal methods to problem solving with everything being figured out by 'cybernetics' or with business management solving every possible problems with 'Operations Research'

and well, maybe it's just overly optimistic scientism
thinking that science will solve everything
because we really underestimate the problem
and yap about all these 'absolute ideals' about science, and it's all bullshit

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realists never get along with the Idealists

and the relative deals with the complex and imperfect and unstable - the real

and the absolute wants it all clear and simple and perfect - the ideal (or the unreal)

[Tommy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seems like conservative butthurt with their axioms, morals and values being sidestepped who haven't gotten much beyond Aristotle. There's intellectuals of a variety of fields in here, some more intelligent (i.e. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy) but mostly dumb hot takes on race, advertising, history, consciousness, education, biological evolution.